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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Keeping "Rolling Thunder" on the ground.
  • Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:40:16 -0500

On 2/26/2012 at 9:35:16 AM, Marlin Burkholder wrote:
> Several months ago I submitted an application to NRCS for a grant to put up
> a
> “Rolling Thunder” moveable high tunnel. The high winds we have been
> experiencing for this past week have gotten me scared. I have read some of
> Elliot Coleman’s material about these things and I don’t think his system
> for
> wind anchoring them would hold up to the winds we get here. His site
> appears
> to have woods with a lot of evergreen trees within several hundred feet of
> his high tunnels. We have scattered patches of mostly hardwood and a few
> eastern red cedars forest and we sit between two hills where late winter
> wind
> sucks through with relentless force.
>
> I would be interested in others’ experiences with “Rolling Thunder” tunnels
> and what they think would be sufficient to hold them on the ground during
> the
> near hurricane force winds which we can expect every spring.
> I really don’t want to take many risks with an investment of $7000 per
> tunnel
> even if the government is going to pay for part of it.

The day before tropical storm Irene blew through last year, I spent the day
pounding in extra ground posts to hold down our two Rolling Thunders, along
with placing extra weights around the entire outside, wiring in the sides of
the roll-up sides, and screwing down the vents. We survived. Extra ground
posts are definitely a possibility for you, I'd think.


Richard Robinson
www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
Hopestill Farm
www.hopestill.com






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